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Indian air force to buy 126 Rafale fighter jets
NEW DELHI – A top Indian government official says India has decided to buy 126 French-made Rafale combat aircraft for the Indian air force.
The official says the French aviation company Dassault snapped up the $11 billion deal after… Continue reading
Italian Air Force Eurofighters in air-to-air refuelling mission
Air-to-air refuelling is one of the daily training activities undertaken by Eurofighter Typhoon pilots. In this picture, taken during one of those missions in January 2012, four Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) Typhoons (three single seat and a twin seater),… Continue reading
Largest F-35 Fleet Resides at Eglin Air Force Base
FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 19, 2012 – Piloted by U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Joseph Bachmann, BF-7 departs Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base at 2:07 p.m. CST on its 90 minute ferry flight to Eglin Air Force Base,… Continue reading
Team accelerates test, delivers B-1B close-air support capability to warfighter
A developmental test team here partnered with an operational test team from Texas to accelerate testing and deliver to the warfighter B-1B Lancers that can find and strike moving targets in close-air support of ground troops even quicker than before.… Continue reading
L-3 Link Simulation & Training Joins BAE Systems Hawk AJTS Team to Pursue U.S. Air Force T-X Contract
12 Jan 2012 | Ref. 004/2012
Arlington, Virginia — BAE Systems, Inc. and L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) today announced that L-3 Link Simulation & Training, a division of L-3 Communications, is joining the Hawk Advanced Jet Training System (AJTS) team… Continue reading
U.S. Air Force Awards Contract to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Launch and Checkout Capability
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $21.5 million contract to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to command and control all GPS IIIsatellites from launch through early on-orbit testing.
The LCC, which will be… Continue reading
Novosibirsk aircraft plant of Sukhoi delivered two more Su-34 frontline bombers to the Russian Air Force
Today two more serial Su-34 frontline bombers went up in the sky from the runway airport of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO) and off to the place of their deployment at the air base in Voronezh. The first four… Continue reading
Sukhoi has completed a state contract for the supply of new multi-role Su-27SM(3) fighters to the Russian Air Force
The Sukhoi Company has completed delivery of 12 new multi-purpose Su-27SM(3) fighters to the Russian Air Force. The last batch of aircraft was sent to the place of deployment. They were released under a state contract, signed between the Sukhoi… Continue reading
Alenia Aeronautica signs a 25-million-euro contract for the logistic support of Bulgarian Air Force’s C-27Js
Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica company) and Bulgaria’s Defence Minister, Anyu Angelov, have
signed, a few days ago, a framework agreement defining the procedures for the supply of logistic support
services to the C-27J fleet of the Bulgarian Air Force, for… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin rolls-out final F-22 Raptor
12/15/2011 – MARIETTA, Ga. (AFNS) — The final F-22 Raptor to be built for the U.S. Air Force, tail number 4195, rolled off the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics assembly line during a ceremony Dec. 13 at the company’s Marietta plant.
The… Continue reading
U.S. Air Force Awards Northrop Grumman $540 Million Joint STARS Support Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a 30-month, $540 million contract for Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR) of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) fleet. This covers TSSR period 11.5 to 13 which began… Continue reading
Bell Helicopter Delivers to Sri Lanka Air Force
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced today it delivered two Bell 412s to the Sri Lanka Air Force during a ceremony at its facility in Piney Flats, Tennessee.
“We’ve had a strong partnership with the Sri Lanka Air Force… Continue reading